Biblometric Study of English Expressions on Kampo Medicine in English Articles

  • ARAI Ichiro
    Task Force on Evidence Report and Clinical Practice Guidelines (ER/CPG-TF), Special Committee for Evidence-based Medicine, The Japan Society for Oriental Medicine Japan Kampo Medicines Manufacturers Association
  • TSUTANI Kiichiro
    Special Committee for Evidence-based Medicine, The Japan Society for Oriental Medicine Department of Drug Policy and Management, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the University of Tokyo

Bibliographic Information

Other Title
  • 英語論文における漢方の英語表現の文献計量学的研究
  • —Use both “Kampo” and “Japanese” in Writing English Articles on Kampo Medicine—
  • —漢方を英語表現する時には“Kampo”と“Japanese”の両方が含まれる表現としよう—

Description

We investigated the correlation between search terms in electronic databases and descriptors of Kampo medicine in English articles to consider what may the best expressions to search for Kampo medicine in English literature. First, we selected Kampo articles from CENTRAL of the Cochrane Library that were originally identified in Pubmed. “Medicine, Kampo” has been used as a Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) in PubMed since 2000. However, among the 53 Kampo articles published there since 2000, only 13 have been indexed with the MeSH descriptor “Medicine, Kampo”. Second, we searched for the keywords “Kampo” and “Japanese (medicine)” in the literature, and investigated the correlation between these terms and the same “Medicine, Kampo” descriptor. As a result, a literature search with “Medicine, Kampo” was highly correlated with the concurrent use of “Kampo” and “Japanese” in the articles. Hence, we advocate the use of terms such as “Kampo medicine (traditional Japanese medicine)” to include both the words “Kampo” and “Japanese” in future English literatures on Kampo medicine.

Journal

  • Kampo Medicine

    Kampo Medicine 62 (2), 161-171, 2011

    The Japan Society for Oriental Medicine

Details 詳細情報について

  • CRID
    1390282679888972032
  • NII Article ID
    130002124001
  • DOI
    10.3937/kampomed.62.161
  • ISSN
    1882756X
    02874857
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • Crossref
    • CiNii Articles
  • Abstract License Flag
    Disallowed

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